The Cabinet Office competency frameworks sets out the skills which are commonly required across the department. They are based on the Professional Skills for Government framework which provides a common set of skills requirements across government.

To help tackle the budget deficit, the Government introduced a new and ambitious approach to take out costs and waste in central government operations in order to protect essential jobs and services on the frontline. Measures include a significant programme of renegotiating contracts with major suppliers and a strict moratorium in five key areas of discretionary spend: consulting, ICT, recruitment, marketing and property.

The Cabinet Office business plan sets out the Department's priorities 2011-2015. It is made up of five sections - vision, Coalition priorities, structural reform plans, departmental expenditure and transparency.

Since the Office for Civil Society (OCS) was established in the Cabinet Office in May, work has progressed to ensure it has the right structure to allow it to lead the government’s contribution to the Big Society vision. We are pleased to announce that this restructure is now complete.

The information from our structure charts is also available as spreadsheets of resuable data, which set out the numbers of staff at different grades in each of our groups. We publish data in this way so that experts can process it as they wish.